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MiamiensisWx · #41 Postby **MiamiensisWx** » Thu May 11, 2006 10:32 am

Very nice pictures, Karan!

8-)

Dee Bee · #42 Postby **Dee Bee** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:08 pm

How absolutely gorgeous! Very artistic pix, as well!

Even before I read your last line identifying the flowers, I wondered if they were some type of peony (which I used to grow when I lived in the Chicago area). Do the buds of this variety attract large black ants (as the ones I'm familiar with do)?

#43 Postby **Pburgh** » Fri May 12, 2006 9:09 am

Dee, actually they don't attract any ants and what's better with the tree peony is that when you have a heavy rainfall the folliage doesn't go flat like the shrub peony. After the blooms are spent, I will cut them off and still have a little ornamental tree.

Dee Bee · #44 Postby **Dee Bee** » Fri May 12, 2006 9:32 am

How lovely!

Please post more pix as your whole garden blooms!

#45 Postby **Pburgh** » Fri May 12, 2006 9:53 am

http://community.webshots.com/user/pburghp
Try this Dee

Dee Bee · #46 Postby **Dee Bee** » Fri May 12, 2006 5:04 pm

Excellent -- I've bookmarked the link and look forward to revisiting it! Your last year's garden pix are beautiful. I'm especially fond of gardenias. They're so difficult to grow up North -- or they used to be for me....

P.S.Your grandkids are delightful!

#47 Postby **Pburgh** » Sat May 13, 2006 6:32 pm

Thanks Dee, my Grandchildren are my favorite blooms!!!! I have one new one that you have to see == He has curly red hair and the cutest dipples you'd want to see,

#48 Postby **streetsoldier** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:51 am

Lovely grandkids, Karan...my "rug rat" will be graduating high school on the 23rd. :cheesy:

Miss Mary · #49 Postby **Miss Mary** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:47 am

Coppertop is graduating High School?!!!!

We now officially feel old don't we? Aw Bill, please tell him congrats from his S2K family!

I had a daughter graduate HS last year and it was nothng less than extremely busy. Our calendar had an event written on just about each day. It was truly a whirlwind and I had the grad party to pull off. I was stressing out in a major way about this time last year. Oh yeah. Somehow we got thru it all though. With wonderful but bittersweet memories. As our daughter was accepting her diploma so many times in her life flash thru your mind - her first steps, pre-school, starting Kindergarten, ballet recitals, orchestra concerts (so many), dances, etc. All rolled into one huge memory, with tears.

Enjoy it Bill.

Mary

#50 Postby **streetsoldier** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:01 pm

I have asked him, "Who told you to grow up? You didn't get MY permission to grow any taller than 2'6", talk about "Elephant Show comin' on next" or tell me how the Palomino you rode attends "horsie t'urch" on Sundays..."

Now, I'm looking at this 6'1" 165-lb behemoth trying on his cap and gown...and he'll be going to work as soon after graduation at the plant where his mother and oldest stepbrother are employed.

This sux. :larrow:

Miss Mary · #51 Postby **Miss Mary** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:25 pm

Yup. Someone told us before our daughter graduated HS, to cherish all of our family memories. Having her home, under our roof. Because once they graduate, begin college and sometimes move away into a dorm, it will never be the same. That is so profoundly true. I have shed tears, many at times, happy, sad, all rolled into one big cry jag. When I would set the table for 4 and think silly me, she's gone. Or make 4 of something for dinner and think, oh yeah duh, 3 for dinner. I'd pick up individual candy bars on sale at Krogers and buy 4. Just the habits I've had for years - all changed. Forever. The hardest I cried was one week after she started college and I was grocery shopping with Laura. She's flinging about 15 peanut butter foods in our cart, saying - this is great, I can finally eat PB - and I didn't even have to read food labels anymore. I could barely pay for our grocieres. I was already crying by the time I got to the parking lot. This was my first grocery shop in 17 years Bill, when I didn't have to do what was so ingrained in me by the Pediatrician - carefully check ingredients. I sobbed and Laura just sighed saying - it's okay, I cried all day you drove Nina to college Mom. All day. Then I cried some more!

For the most part, the crying is over now. Our oldest is home for 3 weeks and we're having to adjust to having a third adult in the house - that's not easy either!

Hang in there......one chapter is ending and another is about to begin. You wouldn't to put that book down would you?!!!

Mary

#52 Postby **pojo** » Tue May 16, 2006 10:24 pm

Coppertop is graduating already!?!? Wow, did that time go fast! It seems like he just started HS... sorry Bill, I'm probably aging you.

We had to sit through a lovely Fox Valley Tech College for my brothers A.S. in Agribusiness graduation last weekend... please remind me not to invite their speaker to any banquet that I have... (FYI.. it was THAT bad..... It was soo boring that she said 'so' 25x.)

#53 Postby **azskyman** » Wed May 17, 2006 8:33 pm

Congratulations to Coppertop AND Bill! The 400 mile trip from his first day as a freshman to his graduation day took him approximately 22,000 miles. Lots of out-of-the-way maneuvering, but he has made it!

Those wrong turns here and there were put there for a reason; to better appreciate both the simplicity and the complexity of the cap and gown and what it stands for.

I remember the day we were introduced to him (wasn't that in the other galaxy?)

You both have a right to be proud, but so do we!!!

#54 Postby **Pburgh** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:08 am

Boy, it really does seem like only yesterday when we met Coppertop. Give him a hug from all of us and let him know how proud we are of him. Good job Dad!!!!

#55 Postby **streetsoldier** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:21 am

The strange thing is...he really doesn't want to GO to his own graduation. :eek:

He'd be happy to get his sheepskin in the mail, but "beancounter" overrode his veto.

He does need to update his Gallery pic (as do I, but don't say anything). Annabelle (she be a ho') looks just as "pretty-pretty" as the old one, but with longer, fluffier ears. :roll:

Miss Mary · #56 Postby **Miss Mary** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:35 am

Bill - keep us updated about the grad events. Can't believe our little Coppertop isn't so little anymore...... :-(

Aw, enjoy it if you can. It's a true mix of emotions - flashbacks to their childhood and glimpses of the adult they'll soon become.

I have roughly 2 more weeks of work and this is when I'm discovering that working for a school district, when you have children in the same one, is even more hectic. Not less. But soon it will be all over with......we're just so very busy at work, a completely different routine, cleaning carts, packing things away in the cafeteria for next school year. Heavy duty work. I come home everyday even more tired than when I took this job. It is physical labor and hopefully next year I'll have a better handle on all of this (maybe reduce my time here, go to sleep by 10 each night, etc.). All I know is my yard is a mess - weeds and I sorely need mulch. Meanwhile my very nice but organized next door neighbor has mulch ordered for today. She will be working her tail off while I traipse off to work and can't do what's she doing - I do love yardwork, but right now it's very hard to carve out more than 1 hour at a time for it. I prefer 4 hours at least, so I can stay dirty and get it done right. I keep giving her smiles as if to say - don't worry, my yard will not always look like the Malcolm in the Middle's yard....I will get to it!

It all started with Mother's Day, then Laura's 16th BD (party is June 2nd, after school is out), etc. One thing after another.....

I can't wait for a quiet-quiet June!

Mary

#57 Postby **Pburgh** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:40 am

But Mary, your life is so much more exciting that hers. Trust me, I'm just like that next door neighbor - the perfect yard, the clean car, the perfectly clean house. I really need to get a LIFE!!!!!!! There are more important things and you're doing them. I envy that!!!! I miss my kids not being home.

furluvcats · #58 Postby **furluvcats** » Mon May 22, 2006 12:11 pm

We're preparing for a graduating child also! We leave Wed. for Chicago, where Brian's eldest child graduates from HS. 1 down, 3 to go, and the last 3, (including my 2) all graduate in 2010! So, once that it is over, we've got them all raised...kinda...lol. Now THAT will be a crazy year! Thank God kids in IL graduate before they do out here in Cali, so we don't have choices to make on who we're there for. I hope the next 4 years crawl by, but I know thats a pipe dream....

Congrats to Coppertop! Time does fly...I'd love to see his cap and gown pic, Bill.....

We have a low in place and its really cold...ewwww. And after such gorgeous wx that we've been having...I already have a great base tan....

Be well everyone...I'll have to find the stove and throw on a log to keep some of us warm, through this cold spell....

Karan, your garden is divine!

azsnowman · #59 Postby **azsnowman** » Mon May 22, 2006 4:36 pm

streetsoldier wrote:Lovely grandkids, Karan...my "rug rat" will be graduating high school on the 23rd.

NO FRIGGIN WAY JOSE?!?!?! REALLY???!?!?!?! Geeesus.......now "I" feel REALLY old!! CONGRATS Brother Coppertopth 8-)

I just CANNOT believe that horsehockey, REALLY??????

HOWDY one and all......

All I can say, is YES!!! I have ONE MORE DAY in this, the LONGEST semester on RECORD and one of THE hardest semesters I've EVER had in my life :eek:

White collar crime SUX and the class itself is even WORSE! That's the reason for my absence of late and virtually NO POSTING for the past 2 weeks, seriously, this semester has KICKED MY BUTT big time..........THERE, that's enough WHINNING for NOW 8-)

I'd better watch it, I've got "friends" here at Storm2K that think I complain TOO much about the weather :roll:

Anyway......just thought I'd pop in for second and say HI, so......."HI!"

Dennis 8-)

#60 Postby **Aslkahuna** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:47 pm

Should have tried my son's semester-12 Graduate Units of courses (equal to 24 undergrad units) in Atmospheric Sciences. He now has his Masters and will be teaching a Summer Course at the UofA and will be a Research Assistant during the second Summer session. In August he starts on the PhD and will be a Teaching Associate. He's going to be working on data from NAME (North American Monsoon Experiment). My Grad gift to him was a new HP Desktop Computer with dual core processor and other bells and whistles that he will need for his Doctorate studies.

Steve

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